Gun sales in the U.S. exploded last year, first when the Covid-19 pandemic reached our shores and again when the death of George Floyd set off a wave of protests and violence in cities. Some ...

Nearly 20,000 people died from gun violence during the pandemic. This report is a part of "Rethinking Gun Violence," an ABC News series examining the level of gun violence in the U.S. -- and what can ...

Violent crimes like murders have plagued the U.S. over the last two years, and many experts blame the fallout from the pandemic and 2020’s summer of protests and riots following the death of George ...

This article is a collaboration between FiveThirtyEight and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gun violence. In March 2020, as the first COVID-19 outbreaks rippled across the U.S., Americans ...

Like many other states throughout the country, there was a record-setting surge in gun sales in Tennessee last year, with newly released data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation revealing that ...

NEWTOWN - The frenzy of gun buying across the nation in December following the election of Democrat Joe Biden piled on to what was already an unprecedented year for firearm sales, breaking the ...

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Stephen Gutowski founder of The Reload, a publication on America's firearms policy and politics about the influence of the gun rights movement. 2020 was the ...

A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020—a year that saw the highest number of ...

Airport security screeners are finding guns at US checkpoints at about twice the rate they did in 2019, according to new Transportation Security Administration data. TSA said it found about 10 ...